eSights: Blog

eSights: Blog

ePlus is known for our engineering talent and rigor, and we employ many experts who have a keen pulse on the IT industry. From security, cloud, and storage to lifecycle and deployment services, our staff has a unique perspective. Read our thought leadership articles below.

In professional services, your people are your product. Their skills, knowledge, and experience are what separate you and your company in the marketplace. Attracting talented people and retaining them are essential, and your managers play a pivotal role.

Digital transformation is top of mind for every CEO. And it should be. Transforming organizations through technology innovation, digital business processes, and tightly integrated value and supply chains is essential in order to drive growth and lower costs. In fact, two-thirds of Global 2000 CEOs will put digital transformation at the center of their growth and profitability strategies in the next two years.

The promise of the cloud is compelling, and more companies are making the leap than ever before. In fact, Gartner predicts the worldwide public cloud services market will grow 16.5 percent in 2016 to total $204 billion. Those numbers are not surprising, given the tremendous opportunities made possible by cloud services.

Sales of smartphones totaled 1.2 billion units in 2014. We can all agree that is no real surprise. Ours is a society increasingly on the move. And these devices help to improve our productivity, both personally and professionally, and to satisfy our basic human need for instant gratification.

The best leaders I’ve had the privilege of working with over the years—in business and sports—understand that their most valuable asset is their people, and I learned a lot from them about how to manage people, to lead teams, and to nurture employee loyalty.

The marketplace is shifting. Competition is dropping in nearly every industry. As a result, companies are turning their focus away from customers and fixing their attention inward, savoring their market dominance and building rigid, hierarchical organizations that move at a snail’s pace. Did I forget to mention today is April Fool’s Day?

In the face of increasing demand for new and better service levels, administrators and educators are constantly challenged to do more with less. Technology innovation helps managers meet this growing demand as well as increase efficiency, improve productivity, and reduce costs.

The biggest threat to your company’s information security could be sitting two cubicles away from you. Make no mistake. Outside threats are real and shouldn’t be ignored. But the greatest risk to enterprise information security today is the insider threat.

There is little separation between business and IT, making the latter an increasingly vital component for business success. That fact, coupled with heightened market pressure, technology-savvy consumers, increased IT complexity, and the on-going need to find new ways to optimize OpEx spend, has shifted the conversation away from simple device management to strategic value and lifecycle management.

I read an article the other day about a technology product. It’s a well-known brand, so I won’t use the company name. The piece caught my attention because it used a well-worn phrase in the content: “…align IT with the business…”

All I want for the holidays this year is an outcome! As an engineer at heart I love the technical details of a product or a solution. But a long time ago I realized that the outcome—solving the business problem—was much more important than the technical specifications.

Data is the life blood of nearly every business. But, what if something happened to that data or it fell into the wrong hands? Want to do analytics on your structured and unstructured data? Good luck if that data is lost, stolen, corrupted or sabotaged.

With advancements in UC/Collaboration technology over the years, especially over the last decade, a whole plethora of applications have emerged to help users stay better connected with their customers, their suppliers, and their coworkers. But, only if they are used.

I speak to customers regularly about security, and one of the first questions I always ask them is, “What are the two most popular applications you use on a daily basis?” And the majority of the time, the answer I get is web and email.